Sumedh Pathak

Over the last two years, our engineering team at Citus Data has shortened release cycles from 12 months all the way down to 8 weeks. The most recent 7.2 release of the Citus database took 8 weeks exactly, start to finish.

These shortened release cycles have been chock full of new capabilities for our users, including distributed deadlock detection in Citus 7.0, multi-shard updates and deletes in Citus 7.1, and support for CTE’s (common table expressions) and complex Postgres subqueries in Citus 7.2.

On the Citus Cloud side (that’s our fully-managed database as a service that runs on AWS), we’ve recently added fork, followers, fully-online "warp" migration from existing PostgreSQL installations, and point-in-time-recovery (PITR), just to name a few.

When I step back to think about how we got here (as a co-founder of Citus Data, I’ve been here since the beginning), it’s no surprise that I attribute much of what we’ve accomplished to our team. But here’s the point about all these accomplishments that I think is so interesting: our engineering team is distributed across 5 countries and 6 different cities.

Dimitri Fontaine. Photo by Oleg Bartunov

My colleagues at Citus Data and I are super excited to announce that Dimitri Fontaine is joining the Citus Data team. Dimitri is a Major Contributor to the PostgreSQL development project and has authored (and still maintains) key components in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, including the extension framework, pgloader and event triggers, to name a few.

At Citus we want to make dealing with large amounts of operational and analytical workloads easier. Data ingestion speed is key, being the necessary first step in working with any new database. Moreover ingestion is something you'll do repeatedly in testing and development so the bulk-loading user experience is important as well. With the release of Citus 5.1 the experience in loading data is much better all around, and we’ve managed to sneak in a few other improvements as well. Read more below or give it a try today.

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